orkney islands

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   an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofScotlandAtlanticNorth Sea

Questions about orkney islands

What does orkney islands mean?

orkney islands means "an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland".

Is orkney islands a common word?

orkney islands is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.